In a series of paradigmatic readings of René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.

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FATIMA NAQVI is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, USA.

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Sacrificial Victims: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin Politics of Indifference: René Girard and Peter Sloterdijk Mediated Invisibility: Michael Haneke Apocalyptic Cosmologies: Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer Melancholia is Moot: Return to Freud Impoverishment and Feminization: Friederike Mayröcker Television's Foreign Voices: Elfriede Jelinek A Domain of Sexual Struggle: Michel Houellebecq The Quest for the Sacred: Giorgio Agamben